Fri Feb 26 10:38:27 EET 2016

From counterpunch.org: The US Economy Has Not
Recovered and Will Not Recover

The US economy died when middle class jobs were
offshored and when the financial system was
deregulated.

The debt expansion, tied heavily to housing mortgages,
came to a halt when the fraud perpetrated by a deregulated
financial system crashed the real estate and stock markets. The
bailout of the guilty imposed further costs on the very people that
the guilty had victimized.

According to a poll last autumn, 53 percent of
Americans say that they feel like a stranger in their own
country.

The US government will not be happy until no one lives
long enough to collect Social Security.

Paul Craig Roberts is a former Assistant Secretary of
the US Treasury and Associate Editor of the Wall Street
Journal.